Oakland unions are gearing up for a fight

Any employer would be hard-pressed to explain why one group of workers should be rewarded while the others must continue to make financial sacrifices.

But that’s exactly the situation Oakland is facing just three months after it granted its port workers a jaw-dropping contract deal that included an 8 percent raise, a COLA adjustment and a few thousand extra dollars per worker just to sign on.

Because now that other city workers are negotiating their contracts, there’s no way they’re going to let city officials forget how generous they were to their counterparts. Mayor Jean Quan should’ve listened to her advisers when they warned against the port deal.